Originally posted by chickonspeed@Dec 21st, 2003 - 2:38 pm
My opinions on magazines has changed quite a bit lately as some of my favorites (V, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue Paris, American Vogue) have taken a turn for the worse. It's really quite a crisis in magazines these days and readers that aren't interested in miles of column inches on celebrity nonsense are losing out. I think it's just an overall dumbing-down trend in fashion and culture. And I fear that the worst is yet to come. So many magazines these days want to sum up a season in "100 Great Looks for You!" and they aren't interested in analyzing fashion or redefining it or even doing something remotely interesting with it.
These days, I really enjoy self-service, westeast (a great new fashion mag out of China), i-D, Dazed & Confused, and occasionally Nylon. British Vogue, surface, Numero and Vogue Italia are also ok at times though the pretension factor in the last two can be staggering at times.